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  • new_world_odor@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•When people recommend Brave browser.English
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    8 hours ago

    Any free vpn is good enough to shield from dmca consequences on your own network, and takes the place of the brave shield in your stack. This doesn’t apply if you’re collecting huge amounts, or doing something besides just consuming media, something that activates the deeper tentacles of the fed. But the days of individuals being prosecuted under dmca for personal piracy are pretty much long past.

    Edit: try to make sure said vpn isn’t also running a cryptominer, and you can safely assume they’re selling your info. So be aware of what you give them.

  • new_world_odor@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How does Onlyfans models earn thousands and in some cases millions per month, meanwhile a lot of opensource developers earn less than 1000$ per month?
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    2 days ago

    “in some cases” yeah you’re talking about a tiny percentage here, just the ones at the top. Why? Why do some sports players get paid so much? Why do some movie stars get paid so much? Society places incredibly high value on appearances. You’re free to disagree on a personal level (as do I, the beauty culture is horrendous) but it’s important to realize the reality of how most people think.

    As for the devs, people are often broke. Years ago, the reason I first learned about open source was looking for free alternatives to word, when I found libreoffice. I had absolutely no money to spare at the time. These days, I’m in the hole again. But I give when I’m able. I try to give proportionally to my use of whatever it is, that feels fair. I make bug reports with needed relevant info, I’m learning c++ for myself but also to one day make contributions of my own.

    Open source being discovered as a no-cost alternative to paid software makes it difficult to fet funding, even though that’s a pillar of what makes it so great. Bit of a paradox.

  • new_world_odor@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•The 49MB Web PageEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I feel your pain. The really good ones plan for this, some pop up immediately when you scroll up and that sucks. The proper thing to do (imo) is to wait for the user to scroll 80% of the viewport back up, only then letting it begin to slide in, and have it slide in at a rate 1/2 of the page scroll. I do like having it easily available, but it should feel like it’s trying to stay out of the way.

  • new_world_odor@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon argues on reddit
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    3 days ago

    Right, if we’re talking about “good” in regards to speed then you’re correct. But if we’re talking about discerning intent, seriously? I find it hard to believe you’re speaking in good faith and without bias yourself here. Disguising intent is the leading method to ‘jailbreak’ an LLM. Half the time at least, trolls are attempting to disguise their intent (with varying degrees of success). So that would be a solid failure at worst, or miss swaths of trolls at best.

    I don’t want to engage with someone like that either, but I care about not skipping over the people on the fringes of behavior, people who don’t just regurgitate an echo chamber. This task might not require 100% accuracy but I personally wouldn’t be satisfied with anything less than 99.9%.

    I think using something like what we’ve been talking about is very very very far off in the future for me, if I were to ever do so at all. This conversation has made me realize that.

  • new_world_odor@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon argues on reddit
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    3 days ago

    Not obvious. You’re right, there is no magic in this technology, and you clearly don’t understand how it works.

    There is not a single LLM currently available that is able to consistently provide a correct or workable solution when faced with a semi complex word problem that’s able to be contained in one paragraph. They may nail it on occasion but they cannot do it consistently. The “problem” of figuring out if someone is a bit eccentric, has poor social skills, is actively trolling, only trolls sometimes, or any combination of the above, is orders of magnitude higher than that. (edit:) To say an LLM is capable of that kind of logical determination is completely ignoring the evidence to the contrary.

  • new_world_odor@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Age verification is the new digital ID
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    3 days ago

    I think you make a fair point here, partially. However, Marlboro could also advertise on snapchat if they wanted. Now there’s no doubt something like that would catch massive eyes, landing them in hot enough water to probably change the law around it. If Marlboro leadership saw Juul as a threat, that would make sense to do. They lose a pittance in advertising and court fees, and cut off a competitor from an advertising stream.

    But they’re not a threat, they’re an asset. Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris and NJOY, has a 35% stake in Juul. Altria is incentivized to keep their piles of shit separate.

    Vaping has the potential to be healthier than cigarettes, socially and physically. But not when it’s almost entirely controlled by companies that have a history of marketing to children. It’s physically healthier sure, but only 107 countries have laws regulating the age for vaping, vs 188 for cigarettes. The e-waste factor is also huge, something that a lot of people who vape choose to ignore and I wish they couldn’t. I vape myself, have for years, and it’s a shit state of affairs with how popular disposables are. But I don’t know what the realistic solution is. People are going to use tobacco products in a dystopia.

  • new_world_odor@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the USEnglish
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    7 days ago

    As a smaller guy with a slightly feminine appearance (that I try to lean away from but how much can I do), I also fear men I don’t know (bad experiences) and wish that somehow I could choose too. But any sort of ‘qualified selection’ would guarantee someone malicious slips through eventually, and that’s obviously not worth it. I’m not going to let jealousy and whataboutism get in the way of progress. On that note, I do worry slightly about how they’re verifying gender? If it’s by DL, this will affect trans folks in some states much more than others. If it’s not, then verification becomes a very big question mark.

    I also can’t help but notice all the language is very passive, on one hand it makes sense they wouldn’t be able to guarantee anything but at the same time I find it so hard to trust passive language from any tech company, they’ve all abused my good faith of it into the ground. But I digress.

    No flak just thoughts, concerns notwithstanding this is good to see overall. I’m sure Lyft will have to deploy something equivalent to stay competetive.